J. BARBOUR & SONS - A Tale of Data-Driven Success

About

UK-based J. Barbour & Sons Ltd is a fifth-generation family business renowned for crafting and manufacturing high quality clothing — including coats, knitwear, shirts, accessories, and footwear—for men, women, and children.

Barbour offers its high-fashion products online and through retail shops in over 55 countries throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia.

J. Barbour & Sons, which employs over 700 people, based in the UK, with offices in the United States and Germany.

The challenge

• Unlock business value of ‘big data’ in ERP system
• Deliver sales analysis to managers for faster decision making
• Offer fast ROI to reduce pressure on internal IT resources
• Establish real-time business insight across multiple departments

The solution

• J. Barbour & Sons deployed Qlik to over 200 users initially to improve sales reporting and decision making
• Cybit has skilled up internal teams to deploy Qlik in multiple operational areas around the world, across functions such as finance, distribution, HR, eCommerce and stock management

The benefits

• Qlik integrated easily with all their data sources
• Supported faster decision making during business expansion
• Improved stock management and profitability of each location
• Delivered first application in just three weeks
• Freed internal IT resources for higher value work

Our expert consultants will help you to choose and implement a solution to deliver value.

Do you want to adopt Qlik, but you have to discover what you need, how it will impact you, and how to get started?

Cybit is a long-standing Qlik partner with many years of experience in helping customers to take advantage of the powerful self-service analytics platform.

We are here to help you accelerate insights and unlock the full potential of your data with Qlik.  We have helped customers from a range of industries to adopt Qlik.   It provides self-service interactive analysis, innovative visualisations that accelerate discoveries, AI-powered conversational analytics, and dynamic mobile-friendly design so you can discover actionable insights, even on the go.

With Qlik’s unique Associative Engine, automatic associations make instant analysis and ad-hoc reporting easy, showing you all of the relationships in your data so you can make more successful business decisions. Get instant results to any query you have at any time.

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